For the fourth, Jared and I decided that we would go walk downtown in the morning and beat the craziness and have a relaxing morning walk on some trails. The weather was nice; however, I'm really good at getting sunburned and heat exhaustion, so we decided to find a trail that was shaded a bit.
While walking we kind of reached a dead end, but that never stops Jared - he just hopped along through water and on rocks, while I'm wearing crappy shoes to do that . . . aka no traction, no shoelaces and can easily get soaked, but being the awesome wife that I am *cough cough* I followed him. ACTUALLY Jared was really sweet and helped me across so my shoes wouldn't be soaked and we could enjoy the rest of our trail haha.
He stood there a bit smiling because he could see that I wasn't going to just walk through all that water haha so he came back to help me :)
Later that evening we were invited to go and watch some professional fireworks in a neighborhood (Austin has a fire ban - so personal ones are limited), before they started we were in a grassy field playing games with some friends and had a beautiful view of a rainbow. Once the sun went down, the fireworks started, we were a little too close and the fireworks were super loud . . . we went home with headaches, but they were still beautiful.
Later this month we wanted to make a bird feeder like Jared had done growing up, but we realized how nearly impossible it is to find pine-cones in Texas! (At least the area we're in) Who would've thought . . . so we improvised.
Jared was in charge of the main construction, because I had never made one before.
For those of you who don't know, I'm not a fan of the smell of peanut butter, so this was kind of a struggle, but I managed.
It was very entertaining to look back and see the measures it took to get this bird feeder out onto the tree from our 3rd floor balcony :) broom handle + 2 wrapping paper cardboard rolls + yellow ducktape = win!
I think the birds were all too scared of our feeder, that sadly no birds came. We're going to try again soon, and this time with real pine-cones and we'll let you know how it worked out.
Another wonderful adventure that we had this month, we got to dog sit for our cousins. Lots of fun, but after a week, we're not going to ever have a dog - too much work for an animal that will never talk to you :( BUT we still enjoyed their company for that week, or rather, they loved ours haha
Entertaining for us to watch them sit on each other though (I don't know if you can see one of their heads poking out, but the girl would always sit on the boy).
And last but not least, we got to spend a weekend exploring and found this wonderful outlook over a bridge in Austin that overlooks a major lake. Beautiful weather and beautiful scenery.
